On 4/7/24 02:29, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :)
1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M
(GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard.
2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops because my erstwhile SA gave them
to me when computers were decommissioned. At the time they were a big
step up. Now NVidia doesn't support them in Debian. What do you
recommend for them? Multiple monitors. No gaming but an occasional
video. And some features of the KDE Kinfocenter, especially the System
Monitor, either don't work at all, or just make a mess, without a
graphic accelerator.
I suggest that (and, this might not be liked on this list) you install
on one of your computers, alongside Debian, so that you can choose which
operating system to boot, Linux Mint (I run Linux Mint Mate), which has
the drivers for NVIDIA graphics.
About ten years ago, I bought an Acer Aspire 773G (you might be able to
find reference to this, in the list archives), and, it had (has) MS
Windows 8 on it, that I could not use - too difficult.
It took me 18 months to get the computer going.
Only two non-MS operating systems had drivers for the CPU; dragonflyBSD,
and Ubuntu Linux. The CPU is an i7, the name of the architecture of the
CPU, is something like Haskell.
Of those two OS's, dragonflyBSD did not have the driver for the NVIDIA
Optimum, and, the response that I got from the dragonflyBSD mailing
list, was "Get Stuffed - we will not have drivers for NVIDIA - we are
not here to provide a usable operating system!"
Ubuntu Linux was the only non-MS operating system, that had the nouveau
driver, for the NVIDIA Optimum.
So, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (I believe that I was using Debian on my
computers, up to then).
And then, Ubuntu Linux went wonky, a couple of years ago, with its
snapcrap and mandatory fully automated updates, to eliminate usefulness
and productivity, and other user-hostile stuff, and then I found out
about Linux Mint, with the release of version 21, which is based on
Ubuntu, but without the snapcrap and other Ubuntu wonkiness.
So, Linux Mint has the NVIDIA drivers; both native drivers, and,
nouveau. I am using the NVIDIA drivers, on my computers.
I have four of my five computers, that have NVIDIA graphics
Now, having said that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, the more common
version is based on Ubuntu Linux - see
https://www.linuxmint.com/
but, a version of Linux Mint, is available, that is based on Debian - see
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Whether the LMDE version has the drivers for NVIDIA, I do not know, but,
I do know that the version that is based on Ubuntu, does have the
drivers, and, I have been using it with (mostly) no problems.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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